History of architecture

Over 60 years on from its inception, the celebrated Fun Palace civic project developed in the 1960s by the radical theatre director Joan Littlewood and the architect Cedric Price continues to capture the architectural imagination.

What was different about the environments that women created as architects, designers and clients at a time when they were gaining increasing political and social status in a male world?

The principal aim of this book is to improve the practice of surveying traditionally constructed brickwork.

Constructing Building Enclosures investigates and interrogates tensions that arose between the disciplines of architecture and engineering as they wrestled with technology and building cultures that evolved to deliver structures in the modern era.

Metropolitan Indigenous Cultural Centres have become a focal point for making Indigenous histories and contemporary cultures public in settler-colonial societies over the past three decades.

In the act of enclosing space and making rooms, we make and define our aspirations and identities.

This book explores brick architecture of the nineteenth century in South India, through the lens of tectonics and materiality.

This is Not Architecture assembles architectural writers of different kinds - historians, theorists, journalists, computer game designers, technologists, film-makers and architects - to discuss the characteristics, cultures, limitations and bias of the different kinds of media, and to build up an argument as to how this complex culture of representations is constructed.

Designing Schools explores the close connections between the design of school buildings and educational practices throughout the twentieth century to today.

This book examines the arts and artistic exchanges at the 'Christian Oriental' fringes of Europe, especially Armenia.

Through Islamic Architecture Today and Tomorrow, established experts, designers, and newer scholars from the world of 'Islamic architecture', broadly conceived, consider the field's changing nature and continued relevance in our rapidly globalizing context.

Conventional readings of the history of Soviet art and architecture show modernist utopian aspirations as all but prohibited by 1932 under Stalin's totalitarianism.

From climate change forecasts and pandemic maps to Lego sets and Ancestry algorithms, models encompass our world and our lives.

Traditional histories of medieval art and architecture often privilege the moment of a work's creation, yet surviving works designated as "e;medieval"e; have long and expansive lives.

Examining the history of altar decorations, this study of the visual liturgy grapples with many of the previous theoretical frameworks to reveal the evolution and function of these ritual objects.

The rise of suburbs and disinvestment from cities have been defining features of life in many countries over the course of the twentieth century.

Islamic Visual Culture, 1100-1800 is the second in a set of four volumes of studies on Islamic art by Oleg Grabar.

This book develops new and innovative methods for understanding the cultural significance of places such as the World Heritage listed Sydney Opera House.

A Perth Camera is a treasure trove of rediscovered images by the late Ernie Polis from a lifetime spent photographing the city.

Megalopolis con condiciones de vida extremadamente dificiles para una parte significativa de la poblacion exigen formas de abordaje de lo fisico, lo social, lo ecologico, los aspectos de seguridad ciudadana y las cuestiones del sujeto contemporaneo, de manera conjunta y articulada, colocando en el centro de las atenciones las relaciones entre las partes formales e informales del tejido urbano.

Originally published in 1995, this book unravels the history of the 'temporary bungalow' and shows that perhaps it was more a question of providing a new peace-time product for factories than a means of providing accommodation for the homeless.

This book explores the contemporary memory of the Ottoman conquest of Constantinople (now Istanbul) in 1453.

Architectural relics of nineteenth and twentieth-century colonialism dot cityscapes throughout our globalizing world, just as built traces of colonialism remain embedded within the urban fabric of many European capitals.

This book frames mannerism as an inescapable stage in the creative process.

This volume explores the concept of "e;spatial transparency"e;; a form of spatial continuity that articulates depth through permeable, layered, or porous three-dimensional organizations where interstitial light is present.

This book examines the industrial monuments of twentieth- century Britain.

Robert Hooke (1635-1703) was a genius whose wide-ranging achievements are at last receiving the recognition that they deserve.

The Recovery of Natural Environments in Architecture challenges the modern practice of sealing up and mechanically cooling public scaled buildings in whichever climate and environment they are located.

First published in 1954, The Genesis of Modern British Town Planning is a study from a historical standpoint of the social and economic factors which have made town planning one of the normal functions of government.

The pivotal position of the Oxford region in the geological and therefore building history of England is of fundamental importance to the study of traditional construction.

After three years of education, architecture students have to start out on their first year of practical training as the initial step in a career in the professional world--all too often without enough clear advice to make sure that their first step is in the right direction.

Cityscapes in History: Creating the Urban Experience explores the ways in which scholars from a variety of disciplines - history, history of art, geography and architecture - think about and study the urban environment.

El autor presenta de manera didactica y accesible su metodologia DPA, un procedimiento paso a paso aplicable al desarrollo de proyectos audiovisuales de cualquier escala.

Is the display of number and geometry in medieval religious architecture evidence of intended symbolism?

Mariana Griswold Van Rensselaer (1851-1934) is highly regarded among architectural historians for her 1888 biography of the nineteenth-century architect Henry Hobson Richardson.

Between 1918 and 1933 the German interwar avant-garde was a primary force driving European cultural innovation and modernism.

From the invention of skyscrapers and airplanes to the development of the nuclear bomb, ideas about the modern increasingly revolved around vertiginous images of elevation and decline and new technologies of mobility and terror from above.

In this fully illustrated ebook, TV's Dan Snow brings to life a cavalcade of medieval fortifications and allows the reader to experience the clashes up close.

Pasargadae is the location of the tomb of Cyrus the Great, founder of the Achaemenid Empire.

A uniquely personal account of the life and enduring legacy of the Renaissance libraryWith the advent of print in the fifteenth century, Europe's cultural elite assembled personal libraries as refuges from persecutions and pandemics.

Bringing together leading writers and practicing architects including Jean Dethier, David Mayernik, Massimo Scolari, Robert Adam, David Watkin and Leon Krier, this volume provides a kaleidoscopic, multilayered exploration of the Architectural Capriccio.

A classic book authored by the foremost architectural historian in America, this fully illustrated history of American architecture and city planning is based on Vincent Scully's conviction that architecture and city planning are inseparably linked and must therefore be treated together.

Riverscapes are the main arteries of the world's largest cities, and have, for millennia, been the lifeblood of the urban communities that have developed around them.

Hailed as one of the key theoreticians of modernism, Eugene-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc was also the most renowned restoration architect of his age, a celebrated medieval archaeologist and a fervent champion of Gothic revivalism.

In recent years, there has been a growing debate on the various ways that architecture and urbanism have served the triad of colonialism, nationalism and modernity.